RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Goldberg, MD

Gastroenterology · Evanston, ILNPI 1134159064

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $21.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$525
  • Johnson & Johnson$424
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$337
  • Gilead$222
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$182
  • QOL Medical, LLC$128
  • plus $983 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,802100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$2,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,984
Medicare patients
236
Services billed
439

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
LinzessLinaclotide49$27,431
XifaxanRifaximin11$16,654
Mesalamine15$8,524
Budesonide DrBudesonide16$5,396
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates72$5,082
Metronidazole25$1,595
Colestipol Hcl19$915
Pantoprazole Sodium81$892
Famotidine26$592
Rabeprazole Sodium18$344
Omeprazole26$303
Hydrocortisone12$176
Metoclopramide Hcl17$81

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieLinzess$525$27,43149 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$91$16,65411 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.

Other gastroenterology in Evanston

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